Our Jacob A. Riis retrospective opened this week to critical acclaim. Museum of City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Sreet) Now on View Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half <http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=e64ec857c4&e=3c626343c0> His images still shock - and demand our attention. Through his pioneering photojournalism, Jacob A. Riis illuminated the squalid living conditions of New York City's poor, from the cellars of Ludlow Street to the barracks of Mott Street at the turn of the 20th century. Our Riis retrospective opened this week to critical acclaim, and serves as a precursor to Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy<http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=b5c2e85cbe&e=3c626343c0>, with Riis as one of the city's early champions of housing reform. His photos, articles, and illustrated lectures of the slums prompted fellow reformer Theodore Roosevelt to call Riis "New York's most useful citizen." They also provide a unique lens for viewing New York's persistent, ongoing struggles with inequality. This is the first major retrospective of Riis's photographic work in the U.S. in more than six decades, and for the first time unites his photographs and his archive, which belongs to the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Plan your visit.<http://mcny.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=7aecf0b4ad&e=3c626343c0>